Creative Commons Explained
Creative Commons is something that I talk about at a high level when I deliver social media training. Here is the long version of this story. Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) This license is the most restrictive, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them...
read moreWhat is #FollowFriday on Twitter?
Twitter has a few memes/games and one of them is the popular #FollowFriday. So on Friday you will see Tweets ending with #FollowFriday. The rules are simple 1. On Friday 2. Suggest interesting Twitter users to follow 3. @<twitter id> … #FollowFriday It’s that simple. The idea behind this is to promote users that you find interesting. Your followers or anyone checking the Everyone updates will see this Tweet. It all got started with one simple tweet from Micha Baldwin… With a suggestion from Mykl Roventine… And...
read moreFacebook @mentions
What makes a social network great asides from the obvious are the little touches that are added to make updating you status easy. In the age of less is more it’s nice to have these add-ons. Ok I am going to cut to the chase, it’s the @mentions or new tagging feature from Facebook. If you are a regular Twitter user you are very familiar with the @username, as a way of replying to the people you are having a conversation with. This feature is somewhat similar to Twitter however it’s not only user name based but contextual as...
read moreFacebook Lite
Facebook now has something called Facebook Lite. The way to access this is by clicking on the linkhttp://lite.facebook.com/. It’s certainly a work in progress however it’s quite a calming feeling when you use this as most of the applications, updates, requests etc. are not there. All the bells and whistles have been stripped out. So if you like this then use it. Here’s what it looks like so far. Top menu bar for Lite has the Profile, Events, Inbox, Settings, Logout and Search. Compared to the regular Facebook which has...
read moreI have a Gravatar
I have a gravatar, yeah. A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar which further means that it’s an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you participate online. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs, forums etc.. So with this in mind I have signed up on Gravatar. The big question in my mind is not that I have a gravatar how does my avatar appear on other blogs, forums, sites etc. It’s through the use of the gravatar plugins on the site. Some of the plugins are for WordPress, Joomla, Geeklog...
read moreBluesfest View Tube – FaveQuest
Allan Isfan is the CEO of FaveQuest and I have had the pleasure of having many engaging discussions with him over the past year or so. He has a tonne of great ideas, energy and a great contributer to the start-up community in Ottawa. I have heard a lot about this particular project and today is very exciting as FaveQuest has just launched their latest social media application, the Bluesfest View Tube. “The Bluesfest ViewTube consists of three components 1) music videos for nearly all acts (pulled from youtube) 2) a personal calendar...
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